The California House: Adobe. Craftsman. Victorian. Spanish Colonial Revival

The aura and romance of Old California lives on in this treasury of inviting homes. The California House presents the magic of the golden state that land of infinite promise and dreams the most tangible expression of which can be found in the homes built by early California dreamers. Here domestic visions of tranquility and repose were inventively realized—in stucco or stone wood and wrought iron plaster and glass and tile. Spanish Colonial Revival–style homes with elaborate wrought-iron window grilles romantic shadowy interiors and lush courtyard gardens stand beside other particularly Californian architectural wonders such as the San Francisco Victorian Painted Lady the Monterey Colonial Eurekan Queen Anne and the homey California Arts & Crafts. Including houses designed by luminaries George Washington Smith Stanford White Greene & Greene and Reginald Johnson this book will fascinate both the architecture aficionado and interior design enthusiasts as well as the everyday lover of homes. Including but going beyond the much-adored Spanish style (in its many manifestations) and Mission Revival the book features as well the Victorian of San Francisco's Painted Lady and Eureka's Queen Anne Monterey Colonial California Arts & Crafts French Chateau classic Colonial farm house and more. All new color photography of 25 houses in California ranging in style from Spanish Colonial Revival Mission Victorian Queen Anne California Arts & Crafts Monterey French Chateau Colonial Farm House. The book includes little known California work by well known architect Stanford White known primarily for his East Coast work (designer of the original Penn Station with McKim Mead & White and original Madison Square Garden and many others); as well as the Magdelena Zanone House (Queen Anne late Victorian style home in Eureka CA); the Murphy House San Francisco (Classic French Chateau); a Gothic Victorian 1860s home in Sonoma; Casa Amesti (Monterey style home); El Cerrito designed by Russel Ray and Winsor Soule and built in 1913 in Santa Barbara (an amalgam of Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival); the Frothingham House designed by George Washington Smith in 1922 (Spanish Colonial Rev.); Cuartro Ventos House by Reginald Johnson 1929 in Santa Barbara; William Edwards House by Roland E. Coate Sr. in San Marino 1926; Robinson House by Greene and Greene in Pasadena 1905; Sack House in Berkeley (California Arts & Crafts) Brune-Reutlinger House in San Francisco (classic Painted Lady Victorian); a colonial mid-19th cent farm house in Sonoma; Mariposa classic Spanish style in Montecito; The Marston House in San Diego (Arts & Crafts/Tudoresque); Rancho Los Alamos De Santa Elena in Los Alamos (Span. Col. Rev.); Pepper Hill Farm in Balard.

Hardcover: 256 pages

Publisher: Rizzoli; First edition. Full number line. edition (April 5 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0847835855

ISBN-13: 978-0847835850

Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 1.2 x 11.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 4 pounds